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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by basic rights

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and basic lefts, maybe you should hire a professional though teach you how [student learning to drive]

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...All right check out the following passage to

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[mumbling]

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... All right if she had lived in the United States during the

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1860s Mary Wollstonecraft would probably have argued what and here are the potential

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answers.....all right quick US history lesson what were the [Man watching a quick history quiz on TV]

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1860s known for other than that singular fashion sensation known as the Ditto Cloak...

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...Right, slavery and war and the war was essentially about slavery now while

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the US has some history of being a country of haves and have-nots it's also a [Boy appears with supercar and another appears with olden car]

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representational democracy not an aristocracy option A) wouldn't likely

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be Mary's complaint. There's nothing in the text that says that women's status

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in 1860s was significantly different between the US and England socially

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speaking american Annie and English Emma were in the same boat so it's not D [Annie and Emma sat together]

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either the text also explains that Wollstonecraft adamantly endorsed equal

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rights and opportunities so it's unlikely that she'd make exceptions just

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because they were cost effective so we can safely rule out option C) let's take [Person in cloaked holding an axe]

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a look at her key argument here Mary Wollstonecraft believed that a society

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isn't equal if it doesn't offer equal rights to women so it's logical she'd

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say the same thing about a country that keeps equal rights from slaves making

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option B) the best answer we're all for equal rights but now we're off to

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convince our weird uncle that maybe it's for the best that his dog doesn't have [Weird uncle with his dog]

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the right to vote...

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